Textile fragment with stem, flowers, and leaves
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stem, flowers, and leaves
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with mordant and dyed brown, block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed pink; with stitching in flax
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
33 x 23.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 16 threads/cm (thread count) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1990.855
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Catalogue text
A continuous undulating stem with white flowers and leaves attached; the design is repeated three times to make a continuous field. The pattern is outlined in brown against a pink background.
The reverse shows that the mordant to produce the brown outlines was stamped on first, then a resist was applied and the fabric was dyed pink.In: Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997)
Further reading
Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997), no. 849 on p. 250 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 250 fig. 849
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